Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The barrel or case containing the mainspring of a watch or spring-clock.
- noun The funnel of a sucking-pump.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A little cask, or something resembling one.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A little
cask , or something resembling one.
Etymologies
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French, diminutive of baril barrel.
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Examples
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The sinner (_Chevalier au barillet_) who endeavours for a year to fill the hermit's little cask at running streams, and endeavours in vain, finds it brimming the moment one tear of true penitence falls into the vessel.
A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II. Edward Dowden 1878
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